"I ache to feel human, connected, real" I get it (or maybe a version of it) , I call myself alien anthropologist, here to study and document things, but never human enough to feel things as i should

Thanks alot for your cotribution to the internet and to the world

Your web manifesto has no clue. you focued too hard on hollow, replicable things like aesthetics, and treated capitalism as a big bad, as if to excuse communism of its own sins. Communism was built on the back of capitalism, and cannot exist without it, as such as a ying and yang. The issue with the modern web is corporations; not capitalism as a whole. The reason Yesterweb failed was because it focused heavily on drawing in a twitter user and discord user crowd, while focusing too heavily on politics, which are divisive at best and radicalizing and hate filled at worst, as well as the hollow and replicable nature of aesthetics. You completely forgot about the importance of splintering and factioning of the old web... some groups cannot get along, you don't necessarily want gamers and book nerds in the same space, nor do you want furries and edgy 4chan kids in the same place either. What brought the old web freedom was one: not a rejection of capitalism, as many people profited off the old web too, but it was the rejection of big corporations and advertisers. and two: what brought the most freedom WAS said splintering, and as well freedom of speech, even when it was against what you believed in. Your yesterweb while succeeding in some areas like getting people to make their own websites, it failed because it did none of these things that I mentioned and instead ONLY focused on aesthetics and politics. if you want a BETTER piece on how to revive the old web, go read mine up in that site... But again, if it wasn't for your earlier concepts (and vaporwave) I probably would have never found the personal, small, and indie factions of the web, and would have never discovered spacehey, or forums, or anything like this to write this piece so in a way, while I am scolding you for how you failed and got to wrapped up in politics, I still thank you for giving me the resources I needed to realize and write my DEAD WEB EXODUS piece.

fell down the rabbit hole of blogs/sites and ended up here :3 awesome sauce!!

"so much for old web revival.. You have fallen to the minimalist side... You were supposed to help FIGHT the minimalism not join it." -Anon What the helly. Nah, this comment ain't it. I love the new layout. Great job! Looking forward to watching you evolve within your intensity.

The things you see on the random internet : D

woahh!! i’m new to old web revival (i’ve always had a passion for everything to do with the old internet, but never got into it myself) and your page is one of the first i’ve seen, i love your design!! hope your day is going well

so much for old web revival.. You have fallen to the minimalist side... You were supposed to help FIGHT the minimalism not join it.

My 3am nostalgia led me here

É muito estranho escrever em um Guestbook em 2025. Me sinto como o jovem Lucas de 2001 que escrevia html e lia Pierre Levy. Uma nostalgia interessante.

It's really brave to be public and personal/vulnerable. Good luck!!!!

be like a flower

kewl website bugcake

this is frustrationg.

[I]Hello, I'm a graphic designer student from France. I have to create on a mag about the internet; I watched a video about the dead internet theory and thought it was so scary and fascinating at the same time. I think I am going to talk about the humans of the internet in this mag. I did not really know anything so I looked for some little handmade niche site to start digging. I discovered Neocities this morning and it feels like finding an entire civilization that I didn't know existed (I'm being a little bit dramatic I know). I have been exploring since then going from link to link in this geant maze. I was really surprised to find all those sites so active and full of humanness; that's what I was looking for. I am happy so I felt like sharing it here.